Hitler's Executioner: Roland Freisler, President of the Nazi People's Court

The biography of the infamous judge who oversaw Nazi justice for the Third Reich as president of the "People's Court."

Though little known, the name of the judge Roland Freisler is inextricably linked to the judiciary in Nazi Germany. As well as serving as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he was the notorious president of the "People's Court," a man directly responsible for more than 2,200 death sentences; with almost no exceptions, cases in the "People's Court" had p...